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# Getting Started

Start here to bring up a first working system. Deploy perception and the Safety
Core on real camera feeds, or run one of the simulation-based quick starts to
exercise the closed loop without hardware.

[Prerequisites](/halos/outside-in-safety/getting-started/prerequisites) collects the hardware, software, and NGC access
requirements for every route below. Check it before you pick one.

| Start with                                                  | What it deploys                                                      | When to choose it                                                                                                                  |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Deploy AI Perception](/halos/outside-in-safety/getting-started/inference-pipeline) | AI Perception (VSS Warehouse Blueprint) on live cameras              | You are bringing up real camera feeds. It hands off to the Deployment Guide for the Safety Core install itself.                    |
| [Deploy the Safety Core](/halos/outside-in-safety/getting-started/safety-core)      | Safety Core on an existing perception feed                           | Perception is already publishing events and you want safety decisions on top of it. This is the shortest manual bring-up.          |
| [Software-in-the-Loop (SIL)](/halos/outside-in-safety/getting-started/sil)          | Perception, Safety Core, and NVIDIA Isaac Sim as one closed loop     | You want the full loop in simulation on a single host, without cameras. Choose the 2D or 3D perception profile there.              |
| [Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing](/halos/outside-in-safety/testing/hil)                | The same closed loop split across an x86 host and an NVIDIA IGX Thor | You want perception and the Safety Core running on the target hardware while the simulation drives them from a second host.        |
| [Agentic Deployment](/halos/outside-in-safety/getting-started/agentic-deployment)   | Whichever profile you pick, installed for you                        | A coding agent runs on the deployment host and you want it to perform the bring-up from a single prompt.                           |
| [Deploy on NVIDIA Brev](/halos/outside-in-safety/getting-started/brev-launchable)   | The same single-host closed loop, on a cloud GPU instance            | You do not have a host that meets the requirements, or you want the instance, both repositories, and the bring-up handled for you. |

The [Deployment Guide](/halos/outside-in-safety/deployment) covers running the Safety Core with Docker, from
prerequisites to troubleshooting.